Lilly Xie
Yesterday was Halloween, and on that particularly dark and
stormy night, I looked out the window to see how badly my street had flooded. But when I looked out, I couldn’t really see
anything because the branches of my tree kept blowing in the wind and blocking
my view. The branches were also scratching against the glass and making a
terrible, ominous sound. I suddenly recalled one of the first scenes of Wuthering Heights, when Lockwood saw the
ghost of Catherine outside his window. Not
even joking, I actually let out a scream and alarmed everyone in my family. It was pretty terrifying, considering if there
was one day of the year that ghosts would be out and about, it would definitely
be on Halloween.
Yesterday was Halloween, and on that particularly dark and
stormy night, I looked out the window to see how badly my street had flooded. But when I looked out, I couldn’t really see
anything because the branches of my tree kept blowing in the wind and blocking
my view. The branches were also scratching against the glass and making a
terrible, ominous sound. I suddenly recalled one of the first scenes of Wuthering Heights, when Lockwood saw the
ghost of Catherine outside his window. Not
even joking, I actually let out a scream and alarmed everyone in my family. It was pretty terrifying, considering if there
was one day of the year that ghosts would be out and about, it would definitely
be on Halloween.
But this experience made me realize something that movies
have over books. In the last blog post, Christine discussed how books are
better for characterization, giving thoughts and feelings and creating a fuller
understanding of the characters. Although there are many details that are lost
when converting a 200+ page book into a movie, there are also many things
gained. One of the things that movies do better than books is exercise the
senses of the audience. You can see movies. You can hear movies. You can even
sometimes feel movies if you go to one
of those “4D” theaters. When I was reading the passage in chapter three about
Lockwood seeing Catherine’s ghost, I wasn’t really frightened at all. Nice try,
Emily Bronte, but you didn’t scare me. However, if I had been watching the
scene in the movie, if I actually heard the sound of tapping tree branches, if I
had actually seen the pale, ghostly face of Catherine, I would be huddled up
inside my jacket shaking like a leaf in the wind.
Although we try to be all high and mighty thinking that
reading books is far superior to watching movies, we must also consider the positive
aspects of watching movies too.
Sorry, I'm going o have to disagree with you,Books excercise the senses, for me, much more than movies ever could. However, I do agree that some movies do have positive qualities lacking in books. others however (*Cough cough* Percy Jackson *cough cough*) just seem to exist to ruin a perfectly good book.
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